COLGR49: Inverarity

[Tim Strzechowski]

The name "Inverarity" also appears in James Joyce's _A Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man_:

"The pages of his timeworn Horace never felt cold to the touch even when his own
fingers were cold: they were human pages: and fifty years before they had been
turned by the human fingers of John Duncan Inverarity and by his brother,
William Malcolm Inverarity.  Yes, those were noble names on the dusky flyleaf .
. ." (Viking edition, p. 179).

This passage comes toward the beginning of the final chapter, in which we now
see Stephen as an erudite, albeit slightly arrogant, young man who is about to
discuss his theory of aesthetics with the Dean.



Saioued Al-Zaioued wrote:

> (Inverarity: Think Inverse and Moriarty, I believe Dean Moriarty was the
> character that represented Neal Cassidy in 'On the Road', havent read the
> book since highschool, but I know that Pynchon was a big fan of Kerouac.
> What I remember is that Moriarty was pretty nuts party maniac type, but was
> very poor. So in this sense, Pierce is the inverse since he is really rich,
> and the way he parties seems to be more calculated than getting drunk in a
> ghetto. I do have another theory about names which I will discuss in a later
> post.)
>